Godoy Cruz secured their ticket to the Copa Liga Profesional playoffs last time out despite registering a disappointing scoreless away stalemate at Sarmiento. As a result, El Tomba are now group B leaders on 22 points and remain occupying one of the Copa Libertadores’ places in the aggregate table after succumbing to a single defeat across the last 14 league matches (winning six and drawing seven). Furthermore, Godoy Cruz are unbeaten in their last 17 home matches, with ten victories and seven draws since losing to Estudiantes 1-0 in February.

Boca Juniors returned to winning ways in league action last time out, when beating Newell’s Old Boys 1-0 at home with Miguel Merentiel netting a penalty in the 89th minute. El Xeneize put an end to their three-match winless streak of two draws and one defeat to make it 15 points in the Copa Liga Profesional group B: sitting in seventh spot of the aggregate table, Mariano Herron’s men need to win here in order to keep their hope alive in the fight to clinch a Copa Libertadores’ ticket for next season. Boca took a single point from the last nine on offer on away turf in this competition. On Wednesday 22, Boca lost 3-2 to Estudiantes in the Copa Argentina semi-finals.

Boca’s semester can’t get any worse after their Copa Argentina elimination on Wednesday, and they will have to go to Mendoza in a must win game (still without Edinson Cavani) to stay alive in the Copa Libertadores 2024 race, but Godoy Cruz is a very tough team, they will have key player Tadeo Allende back and should win here like the last time they met when they trashed Boca 4-0.